Stable & ambitious company - Publisher Cengage Employee Review

5.0
Sep 6, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Cengage is a large company. Benefits package is strong. Cengage is filled with very, very smart people. They have to be since they work in the higher education space providing educational content to university classrooms and libraries. Telecommuting is an option for the right position. They get the reality of productivity from a remote location. Having struggled with past financial challenges, leadership has a much clearer picture of what needs doing to succeed. There appear to be realistic expectations in place with respect to fiscal performance rather than the sometime science fiction-thinking that can infect sales goal assignments.

Cons

Large corporation always present a certain amount of bureaucracy. I haven't seen terribly much of it so far, but that doesn't mean it isn't present.

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Pros

Total rewards, time off, great people and culture

Cons

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3.0
Jun 4, 2026
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Pros

Company has some interesting approaches to the market and in the past they seemed value employees. There are some good employees there and there was, in the past, visionary leadership, but the people with the vision and leadership skills left the company a few years ago.

Cons

The company actively de-values employees. They had a project they called "Project Horizon" where they told all employees they needed to cut costs, so the company was going to have multiple layoffs over 3-5 years - but nobody was allowed to know when, where, or why - - just one day large swaths of people would be gone. That hung over everyone's heads - for years, and is indicative of how Cengage values employees - it doesn't. Everything is about trying to secure new funding and prepare for an IPO, so they stopped investing significantly in the products about 3 years ago and that's about when they stopped acting like they cared about employee wellness as well.

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